The Trade Marks and Service Marks (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 2551

TRADE MARKS

The Trade Marks and Service Marks (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1994

Made

29th September 1994

Laid before Parliament

4th October 1994

Coming into force

28th October 1994

Whereas in pursuance of the requirements of section 40(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1938(1) the Secretary of State has, before making the following Rules under that Act, published notice of his intention to make such Rules and of the place where copies of the draft Rules might be obtained by advertising such notice in the Trade Marks Journal and the Official Journal (Patents) on 14th September 1994, being the manner which he considered most expedient so as to enable persons affected to make representations to him before the Rules were finally settled:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 40 and 68(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Rules:—

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1994 and shall come into force on 28th October 1994.

2.  The Schedule to the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Forms) Rules 1986(3) shall be amended—

(a) in the List of Forms shown thereunder, by deleting the entry “TM10A Completion of registration of a trade mark.”; and

(b) by omitting Form TM10A.

Ian Taylor

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Technology,

Department of Trade and Industry

29th September 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Forms) Rules 1986 to abolish Form TM10A, relating to the completion of the registration of a trade mark in respect of an application filed on or after 1st October 1990.

(1)

1938 c. 22; the Act was applied, with modifications, to service marks by the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (c. 19), section 1, as amended by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39), section 2(1) and Schedule 3.

(2)

S.I. 1970/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1986/1367; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1990/1801.